CY-801 RGPV B.Tech
Hardware Security (HS)
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Previous Year Papers
2 papers, latest Jun 2025
Syllabus, notes and important questions for CY-801
Syllabus units
Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.
Unit 1 Overview of Hardware Security Issues and Foundations 5 topics
- Issues of hardware security
- Algebra of finite fields
- Mathematical theory of public‑key cryptography
- Digital design on FPGA
- Classification using Support Vector Machines (SVMs)
Unit 2 Hardware Security Primitives and Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) 6 topics
- Cryptographic hardware primitives and implementation
- Optimization of cryptographic hardware on FPGA
- Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs)
- PUF implementations
- PUF quality evaluation
- Design techniques to increase PUF response quality
Unit 3 Side‑Channel Attacks on Cryptographic Hardware 5 topics
- Basic idea of side‑channel attacks
- Current‑measurement based side‑channel attacks (Kochers attack on DES)
- Design techniques to prevent side‑channel attacks
- Improved side‑channel attack algorithms (template attack, etc.)
- Cache attacks
Unit 4 Testability, Fault Tolerance and Verification of Cryptographic Hardware 4 topics
- Fault‑tolerance of cryptographic hardware
- Fault attacks
- Verification of finite‑field arithmetic circuits
- Modern IC design and manufacturing practices and their implications
Unit 5 Hardware IP Piracy, Countermeasures and PUF‑Based Protection 4 topics
- Hardware IP and IC piracy
- Design techniques to prevent IP and IC piracy
- Using PUFs to prevent hardware piracy
- Model building attacks on PUFs (SVM modelling of arbiter PUFs, genetic programming modelling of ring‑oscillator PUF)